'The Acolyte' Showrunner Leslye Headland Accused Of Being Part Of Lucasfilm Campaign Targeting Gina Carano, Was To Participate In Struggle Session - "she was “required … to meet with representatives of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination), a national organization that promotes LGBTQ+ acceptance, something she willingly did.” After allegedly receiving positive feedback, The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm were not satisfied and “continued to demand a public apology. … Defendants went so far as to try and convince Carano’s publicist to force Carano to issue a statement admitting to mocking or insulting an entire group of people, which Carano had never done.” The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm also “rejected Carano’s proposed alternate statement.” From there, “Carano went to donate to a GoFundMe page allegedly set up in support of the transgender community. When she opened the link, she read that the fund was supposedly created by a Lucasfilm creative and was directly targeting Carano, defaming her by accusing her of being a “bigoted” actress. Accordingly, Carano did not donate.” The lawsuit then alleges “Carano brought this to Lucasfilm’s attention, who denied the GoFundMe account was established by any Lucasfilm employee. Shortly thereafter, the account was changed to call Carano “ignorant” and the identity of the organizer was changed to no longer identify a Lucasfilm employee.” It then reveals that Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy wanted Carano to join a struggle session on ZOOM with her and 45 other employees “who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community.” The purpose of this struggle session, according to the lawsuit, “was a ‘litmus test'” to determine if she had the “willingness to endure such harassment and humiliation.” The group was described by her publicist as “a friendly group that WANT Gina to succeed.” However, multiple employees that were to take part in the struggle session had contributed to the GoFundMe campaign including Leslye Headland."
Meme - Boy: "MOM, CAN I HAVE A SHIN HATI?"
Mother: "NO,WE HavE SHIN HATI AT HOME"
SHIN HATI AT HOME: *Mae from the Acolyte*
*annoyed boy*
Meme - "THEY'RE MARKETING THE ACOLYTE TO FANS OF THE HIGH REPUBLIC
THEY'RE GOING TO BLAME OT/EU FANS WHEN IT TANKS"
Meme - "The creator of Star Wars: The Acolyte looks like someone tried to draw Gina Carano from memory"
The Acolyte creator on 'gayest Star Wars' and 'lesbian' R2-D2 - "Stenberg, who plays twin sisters Osha and Mae, said Star Wars was “so gay already”, because “nerds are gay”."
???
The Acoloyte Makes Sure Disney Star Wars is DOUBLE Dead. - YouTube - "'It's very or would have been very easy to fix Star Wars. They were on their way to fixing it with the Mandalorian and then they just like just dropped the ball again and again and again'...
'We knew this was going to happen because they were preemptively trying to do damage control.'...
'This is exactly what happened with Obi-Wan where you had them preemptively like well we're going to defend Moses Ingram before you even see her on screen'...
'When you did the Disney sequel Trilogy. What's the dumbest thing we can do? Oh don't put Han, Luke and Leia together when they know that everybody wants. That's what they did. What's the second dumbest thing you can do? Ruin Han, Luke and Leia... what's the dumbest thing we could do right now? I don't know let make a show that's going to piss off the fans and make the force actually female and then you go and do it. I, you deserve everything you get. Everything you get Disney... Everybody's saying it's negative, it's not legitimate criticism, it's review bombing. But every five score, five star score is completely legitimate. No it's not true... stop the lies Screen Rant'"
Lucasfilm Boss Says Women in Star Wars Struggle With Toxicity Due to ‘Male Dominated Fan Base’
How many times can you make the same excuses? Even if this is true this is an admission that you are refusing to give your customers what they want
Meme - Star Wars @starwars: "No one is safe from the truth. The two-episode premiere of @OfficialAcolyte , a Star Wars Original series, arrives June 4 on @DisneyPlus."
Tolly Censor @TheTollyCensor: "Heavily excited for this show and I can't wait to see the Jedi and the galaxy during the high republic. I'm curious what they will explore that adds to the rest of the lore."
Eddie @OHMYDIAZ: "Heavily excited for this show and I can't wait to see the Jedi and the galaxy during the high republic. I'm curious what they will explore that adds to the rest of the lore."
Damn toxic fans!
Meme - "Episode I
THE ACOLYTE
It ''is the era of the HIGH REPUBLIC, a time where there are NO WHITE MALES. The Jedi use the pronouns THEY / THEM and carry pink lightsaber lassos. Enter the magical world of THE ACOLYTE set 100 years before the real Star Wars movies but containing MODERN DAY THEMES."
Alan Ng @ Film Threat on X - "FINAL VERDICT: The third episode of The Acolyte will finally kill Star Wars for the vast majority of Pre-Disney Star Wars Fans. Based on LucasFilm comments of late, they are OK with that."
TV critic says 'The Acolyte' will 'finally kill Star Wars' - "Disney's Kennedy has consistently lived up to her parody-portrayal from "South Park," which had her insisting that everything from the studio become more "lame" and "gay." "Put a chick in it. Make her gay!" she yelled in the cartoon. The parody has mirrored real life, as series star Amandla Stenberg and creator Headland recently debated how gay "Star Wars" actually is. During an interview with "The Wrap," Stenberg said she thought the franchise "is so gay already." "I mean have you seen the [outfits]? We'd be like 'Look how gay this is' and send each other reference photos," she laughed. "Are you telling me, with a straight face, that C-3PO is straight?" Headland asked the reporter... When asked for comment on the idea of the force becoming female, reporter Lewis Brackpool puzzlingly asked, "What in the world are they on about, 'the force is female?'" "I feel like any further response would be me repeating myself about all of this woke nonsense," he added."
The Acolyte Premiere's Body Positivity Fat Padawan! - YouTube
Meme - "Star Wars: The Acolyte
92% avg. tomatometer. 27% avg. audience score
THE MEDIA: The audience hates it? Am I so out of touch? No. It's the audience who is wrong"
Meme - "AM I OUT OF TOUCH WITH STAR WARS? NO, IT'S THE FANS WHO ARE sexist"
Meme - Joel Berry @JoelWBerry: "Female Star Wars showrunners putting a crackling campfire in space is the kind of thing that happens when you get rid of mansplaining"
Meme - "In the Prequels, Anakin becomes a powerful Force user corrupted by the dark side
In the Originals, Luke learns to use The Force to save the galaxy
In The Acolyte, space lesbians use The Force to have a baby"
I found the most savage reply to the dung heap that is Disney's new Star Wars show - "After this pukeworthy third episode, the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes dropped from 26% to 20% by Thursday morning. Compare this to two other abject disasters that Disney created to ruin Star Wars:
*Obi-Wan Kenobi - 46%*
*The Last Jedi - 41%*"
Meme - Screen Rant: "#TheAcolyte Episode 3 introduces Lesbian Space Witches that use the force to get pregnant."
@Hieroglyphics87: "it's sad that Disney just showed us that even in a galaxy far far away black children still don't have fathers..."
Access Media Blames Fans For Ruining Star Wars, Not The People At Lucasfilm Pushing Queer, Feminist Agendas - "To no one’s surprise members of the access media are blaming fans for ruining Star Wars rather than the Lucasfilm employees who are pushing queer, feminist, and woke agendas. The latest attack on fans comes from Lyvie Scott in an article at Inverse titled “The Acolyte Isn’t Ruining Star Wars — You Are.” In the article, Scott declares that The Acolyte is “one of the best additions to that galaxy far away in a long time, embracing decades of nostalgia while also thinking critically on the franchise’s legacy.” She then adds, “It also might be the most diverse Star Wars story yet — and while that’s definitely a boon for marginalized fans, it’s made The Acolyte the target of a vocal splinter of the fandom.” From there, she makes it clear who she’s disparaging in the article, “Whether you know them as the Fandom Menace or a cluster of blue checkmark users on Twitter, it’s impossible to escape their orbit. The same folks that review-bombed diverse swings like Marvel’s Eternals and the Lord of the Rings prequel The Rings of Power have now set their sights on The Acolyte.” As is expected from a member of the access media she labels individuals who do not like the woke agenda that has ruined these various franchises as bigots. She states, “The Acolyte is not actually ‘ruining’ Star Wars, but the bigoted backlash is definitely ruining the fun for everyone else.” She continues with the typical fare of -ists and -phobes, “It’s not outright shocking to see something like The Acolyte marred by racist, misogynistic, and even anti-LGBTQ backlash.” The article gets outright laughable at one point when Scott writes, “Comments on set design and screenwriting have turned into misogynistic microaggressions against Headland; even critiques on the series have been weaponized by its haters.” After making all of these accusations, she then declares that the true culprit behind this criticism of Star Wars is male entitlement. She says, “The origins of this toxicity aren’t difficult to figure out. At the end of the day, it boils down to entitlement: many male fans feel like they own the franchise, and are determined to safeguard it from anyone that could challenge that ownership. That makes it hard for disparate groups to coexist, and it’s even harder for any non-white, non-male creatives hoping to tell stories within the franchise.”... Fans are not the ones ruining Star Wars, it is indeed the executives and creatives at Lucasfilm who are in control of the franchise. George Lucas even recognizes this. During an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, Lucas said, “I was the one who really knew what Star Wars was … who actually knew this world, because there’s a lot to it. The Force, for example, nobody understood the Force.”... It’s abundantly clear that the people in control of Star Wars are indeed the ones ruining Star Wars not the fans who are abandoning the franchise in droves and laughing at the woke slop that it has become. And they are indeed abandoning the show. Minutes watched data from analytics firm Luminate indicates that the two-episode premiere of The Acolyte was only viewed for 210 million minutes between May 31 and June 6th. Both episodes combined had a total runtime of 73 minutes and 55 seconds. In comparison, Ahsoka, which also had a two-episode premiere garnered 829 million minutes viewed according to data tracking company Nielsen for the week of August 21 through the 27th of 2023. Even The Mandalorian Season 3 premiere, which was a single episode premiere that came out on March 1st, brought in 823 million minutes. That was down from The Mandalorian Season 2 premiere, which racked up 1.030 billion minutes when it premiered in October 2020... Not only are people abandoning the franchise and series en masse, but they are seemingly making their displeasure known as they leave. The Acolyte has the worst audience score of any Star Wars property on Rotten Tomatoes. It currently sits at 26%. The average score is a 1.8 out of 5. Interestingly, IMDb not only shows people are abandoning the show, but that they don’t like it either. The first episode of the series has over 8,400 reviews while the second episode saw the total number of reviews drop to 7,500. The show’s IMDb score sits at 4.3 out of 10. However, the unweighted mean is 3.7. The plurality of reviews are 1 out of 10."
You Aren’t Ruining Star Wars — The Acolyte Is - "We’re not anti-woke at The Fantasy Review. Give us more diversity, please! But more diversity doesn’t automatically make a TV show good – you need the writing, music, and aesthetics to be good too, and The Acolyte hits only one of those; music. Sure, the sets are alright, but they are small, they look low-budget, and that’s all down to the lighting. The thing is, many viewers can look past poor lighting and set design if the writing is strong enough – I mean, why else would anyone watch Classic Doctor Who or Star Trek? It definitely isn’t for the amazing set design! Look, the Star Wars fan base is asking for something very simple: good writing. Give us characters we want to root for; locations that enthral us; and plots that leave us debating and theorising at the end of an episode or season. These bland cardboard cutouts the writers don’t bother to give personalities because the actors are talented and diverse are nice to look at, but we feel nothing for them. It’s a waste of an excellent cast and a waste of the viewers’ time."
Star Wars Gaslights The Public Claiming Fans Love 'The Acolyte,' The Show Has The Worst Audience Score Of Any 'Star Wars' Series Or Film - " According to Rotten Tomatoes, the previous record holder for the worst rated Audience Score was the 2008 movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It has an Audience Score of 40%. Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi film is just above Star Wars: The Clone Wars with a 41% Audience Score. The animated series Star Wars Resistance sits at a 47% Audience Score. The previously worst rated live-action Star Wars series that debuted on Disney+ was The Book of Boba Fett. It has an Audience Score of 53%. It’s not just Rotten Tomatoes where audiences are rejecting The Acolyte. On Metacritic, the series currently has a User Score of 4.1. It has 100 positive reviews, 19 mixed reviews, and 166 negative reviews."
Meme - "THE POWER OF ONE
THE POWER OF TWO
THE POWER OF... 16% Avg. Audience Score"
Meme - The Pilgrim Paladin: "Keep. The Gates. I cannot stress this enough."
Screen Rant: "#TheAcolyte Episode 3 introduces Lesbian Space Witches that use the force to get pregnant."
Star Wars fans: *Ken from Barbie facepalming*
Meme - Feminist patient on hospital bed hooked up to life support: And then... Lesbian witches are gonna be impregnated by the force!
*Man unplugs life support*
"In Loving Memory. Star Wars 1977-2024"
StarWarsTheory on X - "Palpatine had such a hard time cloning force sensitives (until moff Gideon) with all his power, knowledge of the force, and his unlimited resources, as well as the inability to create life. And...Force senstivie life, mind you, which is even more impossible. The Sith, Jedi, Kaminoans, Mother Talzin, Witches of Dathomir, Darth Plagueis, Anakin and The Empire couldn't do it. Random witches pulling a couple threads of the force = 2 conceive 2 force sensitive children. So powerful that the Jedi sense and track down across the galaxy. At what point do we just say, wtf?"
'The Acolyte' Review: 'Star Wars' Series Isn't A Force To Be Reckoned With - "The newest Disney+ Star Wars series, The Acolyte, at least attempts to openly confront the reality that the Jedi are smug, complacent, and kind of terrible. But the execution of that idea is spotty throughout the four episodes given to critics. And the decision to set it a century before the rise of the Empire seems to defeat the purpose of the whole thing, because the Jedi of The Phantom Menace have learned exactly zero lessons... In The Phantom Menace, the Jedi have been overseeing a peaceful, Sith-free galaxy for a thousand years. They are confident in the rightness of all their decisions. The situation with Mae, Osha, and Mae’s mysterious, seemingly-Sith Lord master, raises questions that fly in the face of where the Jedi are, philosophically, when Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon find little Anakin in the sands of Tatooine. In other words, this feels like a narrative dead end. That doesn’t automatically preclude a good series: The fact that no one learns anything here could be the whole tragic point of the story Headland and company are telling. It’s good to see another Star Wars project that, like Andor, interrogates some of the franchise’s fundamental assumptions. Entertainment-wise, though, the first half of The Acolyte is unfortunately a lot closer to The Book of Boba Fett."
Addendum: "Most of the pieces are uneven at best, if not simply underwhelming"
The Critics Must Be Crazy — ‘The Acolyte’ Is Just Another Mediocre ‘Star Wars’ Show - "The Acolyte retains many of the franchise’s worst habits and does next to nothing with the new setting that makes it actually feel new. This could be set two years before the prequel trilogy and nobody would be the wiser... I was tentatively optimistic after two episodes. I’ve become decidedly less so after four. Quite frankly, even if the final four episodes of the season turn out to be fantastic, the first four will hold it back from greatness. And how often does a series get that much better in its second half?... I feel like I’m living in an alternative universe reading these, one in which being a critic no longer requires you to be critical, but rather rewards you for simply liking the Right Things and disliking the Wrong Things. One of these quotes gushes over the “impressive fight sequences” while another says it doesn’t rely on “copious action scenes.” But really, the number of reviews calling this some version of a “compelling mystery” or a “riveting thriller” or “STAR WARS HAS NEVER DONE THIS THING BEFORE’ simply boggles my mind. None of this is even remotely true. I say this as someone who has been mildly entertained by this series so far and will gladly watch the next four episodes. But really, you have to be realistic about these things. The only ground being broken here is in the cemetery where they bury our hopes and dreams. Nothing here, beyond the era, is actually all that new. And very little about it is particularly compelling or well-written. It is, however, very, very diverse and I suspect that this focus on diversity drives a great deal of both the positive critical reception and negative audience reviews. When you commit so utterly to making a social cause the thing that defines your show, you effectively guarantee that it becomes just another shouting match in the never-ending culture wars. As I’ve noted elsewhere, there are better ways to approach this (Andor!)... Many critics don’t even pick whether their review should be regarded as “Fresh” or “Rotten.” They have that option, but Rotten Tomatoes can also just pick that for you instead... Whatever you might think on this front, most of the complaints I’ve seen so far don’t focus on the diversity issue, but rather on the stilted dialogue, predictable plotting and so forth. Mostly, longtime Star Wars fans just continue to feel generally deflated by the overall mediocrity and lack of ambition that Disney is bringing to the table...
“The show was watchable, which was an improvement over Obi-Wan and the listless Ahsoka but there is no sign of genuine creative ambition in this show and it suffers from the same sense of weightlessness and lack of dramatic sense as Ahsoka. The characters don't grab my interest and I haven't spent two seconds thinking about the plot during or after watching.”
“Ugh. This is as bad as you've heard. Visually, it looks...OK, I guess? The fights are fine but being massively overrated by Disney-friendly media. The rest is a garbage fire. Terrible acting, weird pacing, bargain basement writing, and pointless changes to Star Wars mythology. It just "feels" wrong throughout, even compared to other Disney Star Wars”
“Having thus far watched the first 2 episodes the show is just very....eh. Like a lot of folks are saying the score is fantastic & it's probably the highlight. But good sound can't carry a show. Thus far the characters are all a bit bland - I'm hopeful of further character development in the next episode.”...
The critics gushing praise for this series sound out of touch with Star Wars and its fandom (and what makes it tick!) and really out of touch with good writing in general... Relentless mediocrity is what’s killing Star Wars and Marvel and DC and so much of pop culture. The majority of Disney’s Star Wars shows and movies have been watered-down and disappointing affairs that seem to want to capitalize on the property without bothering to understand what makes us love it to begin with. They have just enough redeeming qualities to prevent them from being truly terrible. Mostly, they’re just bland and forgettable and lacking the great charm and heroics that made the original trilogy such an iconic entry in the history of cinema."
Star Wars: The Acolyte review: Disney Plus series overpromises, underdelivers. - "The eight-episode series, created by Russian Doll showrunner Leslye Headland, starts off playing with some invigoratingly big ideas, but by the midway point (four episodes were given to critics in advance), they’re apparently all but abandoned, because pursuing them would mean unsettling the branded cosmos we’re already familiar with"
‘The Acolyte’ review: Latest live-action ‘Star Wars’ is no ‘Mandalorian’ | The Seattle Times - "“The Acolyte” shuns blasters for hand-to-hand combat and lightsaber battles but producers make some odd choices: From a spacewalk in a spacesuit to uniform-like Jedi tunics to cheap-looking planet exteriors, this is the first “Star Wars” series to give off a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” vibe. (One character also resembles a Minbari from “Babylon 5.”) It doesn’t help that the show’s momentum can be slow, with too many dull exposition pitstops even as episodes clock in at a light 32 to 42 minutes. “The Acolyte” marks the first live-action “Star Wars” story set during the peaceful High Republic Era previously chronicled in comics and books, but the show gives almost no glimpses of High Republic society in the first four episodes (of eight) made available for review, a significant missed opportunity... Headland explores themes of duality (light side/dark side; families divided by opposing belief systems) with little subtext as the conversations between characters spell everything out in the most concrete terms. “Andor,” like “The Acolyte,” also started slowly and gained narrative momentum. The fourth episode of “The Acolyte” ends on a cliffhanger that promises a big reveal to come, always a smart trick for keeping viewers hooked. But “Andor” felt and looked like a “Star Wars” story through and through even in its less exciting early episodes. “The Acolyte” veers more toward generic sci-fi set in any old galaxy far, far away or even one relatively close, close nearby."
‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Series Premiere Review — Better Than ‘Obi-Wan’ But Far From ‘Andor’ - "The show itself is certainly a step up in quality from Obi-Wan or Boba Fett, but I wouldn’t call it great... I like that you don’t need to have as much knowledge of previous animated shows like you did in Ahsoka, though overall I’d probably put this series about on the same level as that show. It’s fine—leagues better than the third season of The Mandalorian—but not as good as the first two seasons of Mando, and certainly nowhere near as impressive or compelling as Andor, though there is a lot more Jedi fighting, and the Jedi fighting is pretty fun. It’s also quite obviously the most diverse Star Wars show so far, though at times it can come across as as almost parodical... think Andor handled diversity the best of any Star Wars show so far, creating a more diverse series with nuance and authenticity."
At least it wasn't a bait and switch like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Book of Boba Fett
‘The Acolyte’ Episode 3 Review: One Of The Worst ‘Star Wars’ Episodes Ever Made - "The third episode of Disney’s The Acolyte is an embarrassment to the entire franchise, though the same could be said for so much Star Wars these days outside of Andor and the first two seasons of The Mandalorian. Here’s one exchange between two characters in this latest episode: Mae: “The Jedi are bad!” Osha: “The Jedi are good!” Later, the same two characters—the twin protagonist/antagonists of the story, as children in this flashback episode—say to one another: “What have you done?” “What have you done?” “What have YOU DONE?” I want to ask Disney the same question: What have you done?... Osha and Mae fight with one another constantly and are very, very irritating throughout the episode...
The witch chant was one of the lamest chants in the history of all chants. I wanted to giggle maniacally listening to it. I also wanted to cry.
The Nightsisters are better witches. Merrin, from Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor, is a better female witch character than anyone on this show.
This show had something like $180 million for its budget and I cannot for the life of me tell where any of it has gone. Every world feels small. Every set feels claustrophobic. There is no sense of scale or variety. It’s all so relentlessly generic. But hey, lightsabers!...
I have no words. I do have a theory, however. Imposters have taken over Star Wars (and lots of other popular genre properties, from The Witcher to True Detective). Maybe they’re fans, maybe they’re not but they’re certainly masquerading as good storytellers. And they think they know best, making whatever changes they see fit to “make it their own”."
‘The Acolyte’ Writers Hate Star Wars and They Hate You - "Surprising absolutely no one, Total Film recently revealed that “one of the Disney Plus show’s writers had never seen a Star Wars movie prior to getting the job”. Have these studios learned nothing from previous failures, like Chris Chibnall’s era of Doctor Who? You might argue that having an outsider perspective on the scripts might help rather than hinder, giving some fresh, new ideas to a studio running out of nostalgia bait to milk for content. However, I would argue that you should stick the inexperienced writers on the new or lesser known shows and let them gain some experience, and maybe watch and study some of the great movies that came before they were born before allowing them onto the writing staff of a major franchise spin-off. I am not saying you have to be a huge fan of a franchise to work on it, but at least have some respect for the work done before you, and respect the fans. Fans don’t always need what they want, so sure, give us what we need instead of what we want, but only do that with good intentions, rather than this holier-than-thou nonsense we are inundated with... What The Acolyte writers have done is create their coven of lesbian witches (not a bad idea if done right), made one character a white bloke and everyone else diverse in some way (again, fine), and then thrown millions of dollars at an under qualified team of writers, producers, etc. I’m sorry guys, but casting decisions don’t make a good story – good writing does. Add some music that actually evokes the emotion of a scene and sets that don’t look like they are reused Star Trek sets from the 60’s, and you’re golden. The creators of The Acolyte, and several big media outlets are blaming fans rather than looking at these obvious mistakes. Fans don’t like the show because the show is not good... Change is good and exciting, but these people are making changes that purposefully don’t work within the lore and ignore a rich history of the franchise. If they do this, then it’s not Star Wars anymore, it’s the Kathleen Kennedy Takes a Dump on an Asteroid show, plus magic aliens, and no one is going to pay for Disney+ to watch that shitshow."
The Acolyte Fails to be Interesting in the Show’s First Two Episodes - "The Acolyte sells itself as a murder-mystery-thriller show, but the “mystery” is essentially revealed within these two episodes, and the remaining secrets are weak. There’s little to no intrigue, I don’t care about Osha and Mae, and Carrie-Anne Moss has been wasted if that is all we are going to see of her. What is it with Star Wars and twins? “Oh, she didn’t murder her old master, it was her twin sister who everyone thought was dead until recently”. It feels like a poor imitation of Star Wars, with none of the heart or passion for the franchise that fans would expect... what has The Acolyte really shown us so far to inspire any confidence that there is a cohesive vision for the story?"
Review: The Acolyte Episode 3 is the Worst Thing That Has Ever Happened to Star Wars - "Some call it a force and claim to use it. Some call it a thread and have no idea how the force actually works. The Acolyte episode 3 is the worst thing that has ever happened to Star Wars, and yes, that includes the sequel movies. How this show was allowed to fail so spectacuatly is beyond me. With a massive budget and decades of lore to draw from, the creators have made a show that looks cheap and makes no sense within the established lore of the franchise. Change can be good. Its exciting when a franchise tries something new, but this only works when the people behind the new project are passionate about the franchise and respect its history. Those behind nearly all recent Star Wars project instead seem to hate what makes the franchise so loved, and are intent on ignoring the vision of far more talented people who came before. Take episode 3 of The Acolyte. The writers have taken what we love about Star Wars and twisted it into something unrecognisable. We know how the force works – we have over 40 years of lore to back that up. And we know the Jedi, with all their faults, were champions of the light, while the sith were the dark side. Contrary to some recent banal musings, Star Wars is very literally a classic tale of Good vs Evil. The Acolyte fails to deliver us engaging characters or a story that makes sense. The least the creators could have done is skim a Wiki about Star Wars before attempting (and failing) to rewrite everything everyone loved about the franchise. I dont see anyone enjoying The Acolyte. Hopefully, if we all just stop watching, Disney will sack the lot of them and bring in talented writers who are actually passionate about Star Wars and will create new, exciting stories while respecting its rich history."
Meme - "Remember when directors said things like "I want to sell tickets" and "I'd like for audiences to enjoy my films?""
"New 'Star Wars' Director Wants To Make Men 'Uncomfortable' With Her Films"
Meme - *Leslye Headland* *Zoomer Wojak*
